Loud and joyful screams erupt in unison from the seven-member pop stars BTS after they hear they’ve notched their first No. 1 hit on the all-model Billboard Sizzling 100 chart.
“DREAM,” yells band member RM. “It smooth doesn’t genuinely feel accurate,” adds SUGA, speaking in Korean thru a translator. “We’re genuinely joyful.”
“Dynamite,” the community’s first all-English track, debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. music charts this week, making BTS the foremost Korean pop act to high the chart. The upbeat track even supplanted “WAP,” the raunchy rupture hit by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, to dispute the No. 1 space.
“Never expected it,” RM tells The Linked Press of beating “WAP” for the head residing. “Never! It’s just like the track of the year.”
But getting their first chart-topping track looked inevitable for the Okay-pop boy band, who have persisted to search out predominant success in the U.S. in the final few years. They’ve had four albums high Billboard’s 200 albums chart, they’ve achieved Top 10 successes on the Sizzling 100 with “Boy With Luv,” “On” and “Fraudulent Like,” and in honest minutes they’ve offered out U.S. soccer stadiums that some pop stars must be half of forces to abolish at.
And even at U.S. awards presentations, they’ve long gone from worthwhile honors like “high social artist” to being named only community and only pop act, beating out Maroon 5, Factor in Dragons, twenty one pilots, Jonas Brothers and others. At Sunday’s MTV Video Tune Awards, they obtained all four prizes they have been nominated for.
When asked if BTS — who launched their debut single in 2013 — felt like they’ve begun to scheme extra appreciate from the U.S., RM acknowledged: “We positively genuinely feel that.”
“I have faith in the purpose of view of culture, I have faith it’s genuinely well-known to be acquainted. So first, we predict … that for many People (they have been) now not conversant in (us) — we see diversified, we (say) diversified, we got some diversified choreography, music movies, like all the pieces, even way of life. But I have faith as time goes by, we’re doing these presentations and songs and live presentations and awards, I have faith fairly plenty of oldsters in the American music market is getting, like, roughly terminate (to us),” he acknowledged. “I have faith it’s very apt and that’s what we wanted no doubt.”
It is miles going to must also additionally be time for BTS’ first Grammy nomination.
“When we see (Western) artists … get nominated for Grammys, they would tear: ‘Yeah! Yeah!’” acknowledged j-hope, standing up from his chair and throwing a minute punch in the air.
“Admire Travis Scott,” he persisted. “The nomination is well-known to even (approved) folks like that and to take into consideration that we are in a position to be nominated for Grammy, yet again, it’d be such an honor and a gargantuan feeling.”
Nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards will likely be equipped later this year. The repeat doesn’t have a Okay-pop category, and while there could be a only world music album award, there isn’t a track category for world and global music. These songs, then, would compete for only pop duo/community efficiency — a highly competitive award reserved for tall hits or collaborations featuring uber-in model performers.
However the success of “Dynamite” could per chance well even explode right into a Grammy nomination for BTS.
“The sheer considered a nomination is thrilling,” acknowledged j-hope.
“I indicate, we hope. We hope so,” acknowledged RM. “Nobody is conscious of about the Grammys … however we’re factual doing our only.”
Though “Dynamite” has charted unusual territory for BTS, the track wasn’t even supposed to be launched, RM defined. BTS had plans to tour however that changed because of the coronavirus: “The pandemic blew all the pieces away.”
In swear that they recorded “Dynamite” to give their die-arduous fans, the BTS Military, “hope, certain vitality,” RM acknowledged.
“And we predict that it genuinely touched their hearts.”
The community, which entails Jin, V, Jimin, and Jung Kook, says they’re busy recording a brand unusual album. They honestly feel they’ve a grown in the seven years they’ve been a musical community.
“We’ve matured musically, to boot to in the model we predict. We’ve additionally developed a increased sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are genuinely being reflected in our music and our dance,” j-hope acknowledged.
The band participants fluctuate from ages 23 to 27, and the youngest of clan, Jung Kook, notorious his birthday this week with some particular files.
“I obtained the files of our No. 1 on the Sizzling 100 chart on the day of my birthday, so it changed into genuinely one celebration over one other,” he acknowledged. “It changed into not probably.”
